'geotargeting' Category

• Google Local Search Results

  An unexpectedly popular tool on the old Merjis company site, was a form that helped search engine marketeers see Google Search results as if they were in another country. Type in your search, select the language and country, and you are sent to the Google Search Results for that query, in that country. Google have [...]

  June 23rd, 2011

• Boosting Web Site Presence – Review Sites

  Having your products and services reviewed can have multiple effects. Google Local – reviewed businesses typically rank higher Google Product Search – good reviews help more prominence in listings Prospects like reviews – next closest thing to word of mouth recommendation Reviews can be listed when people search for products and the business name Unsatisfied [...]

  November 29th, 2009

• Bing Spamming Twitter?

  Although I registered for Twitter about a year ago, I’ve only begun seriously using it since late last year. I’m interested in how Bing has been faring, and to reply to a question in the AdWords Help Forum, I remembered that I’d seen one of the people I follow, mentioning the full path to Bing [...]

  June 5th, 2009

• Google GeoTargeting 2008

  Since I did the research for my last description of Google’s GeoTargeting in AdWords, things have changed. Searches that used to yield only nationally targeted adverts are now getting adverts that are targeted to city level. Advertising to mobile phones has been promoted hard by Google – so what happens there? City and Regional Targeting [...]

  February 26th, 2008

• AdWords, Geotargeting Myths

  Note: A short updated article about Google AdWords Geotargeting in 2008 is now available. Changing the geotarget can change your paid search performance quite markedly. However, commentators, and even Google, publish some wildly inaccurate information. I’ve read a few strange myths about geotargeting, in various forums. I’ve got some clients for whom geotargeting at country, [...]

  October 19th, 2007

• Google Analytics revised

  There’s a revised version of Google Analytics being rolled out. Looks like it has some cool features. Still no sign of an API in the online presentation to the new Google Analytics interface and features, so automating AdWords activity requires using yet another performance measurement system (e.g. Google AdWords Conversion Tracking). There’s an increased interaction [...]

  May 9th, 2007

• Click Fraud Buzz Will Grind On

  What is click fraud? Is it right that the search engines really define the industry meaning of click fraud? What if the search engines are complicit in reducing advertising ROI? What oversight exists? Could an advertiser or agency tell, or do anything about it?

  January 26th, 2007